Ogden Nash citations (125 citations, Page 3)

Smoot Smites Smut
Contexte: Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.
Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverend occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l__ns,
Smite h_p and th_gh,
We'll all be Kansas
By and by.

“Hark, hark! the lark
On windswept bark
Freezes against a sky of lead!
Now see him stop,
Take one small hop,
And suddenly keel over dead!”

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The Lark

“Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.:
That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.”

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"England Expects"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.”

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"The Porcupine" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-porcupine/

“Fear not the thunder, little one.
It's weather, simply weather;
It's friendly giants full of fun
Clapping their hands together.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Once in a night as black as pitch
Isabel met a wicked old witch.
the witch's face was cross and wrinkled,
The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled.
Ho, ho, Isabel! the old witch crowed,
I'll turn you into an ugly toad!”

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"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/

“Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?”

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"Good-by, Old Year, You Oaf or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus?" in The Primrose Path (1935)

“Their joy needs another woe's to cushion it,
Say a puddle, and someone littler to push in it.
They observe with glee the ballistic results
Of ice cream with spoons for catapults,
And inform the assembly with tears and glares
That everyone's presents are better than theirs.
Oh, little women and little men,
Someday I hope to love you again,
But not till after the party's over,
So give me the key to the doghouse, Rover”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), Children's Party

“Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.”

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"Thar She Blows"
Versus (1949)

“I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.”

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"A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“Time is timelessness for you;
Calendars for the human;
What's a year, or thirty, to
Loveliness made woman?”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty

“How easy for those who do not bulge
To not overindulge!”

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"A Necessary Dirge"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“It is an indication that my mental buttery is butterless and my mental larder lardless,
And it consists not of "Stop me if you've heard this one," but of "I know you've heard this one because I told it to you myself, but I'm going to tell it to you again regardless…"”

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Good Intentions (1942), So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much

“We love the kindly wind and hail,
The jolly thunderbolt,
We watch in glee the fairy trail
Of ampere, watt, and volt.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,
Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.”

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"Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“The further through life I drift
The more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.”

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"A Penny Saved Is Impossible"
Good Intentions (1942)

“Whether elected or appointed
He considers himself the Lord's annointed,
And indeed the ointment lingers on him
So thick you can't get your fingers on him.”

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"The Politician"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“This poem has widely been credited to Nash as a poem with the title "Fleas", but is actually the work of Strickland Gillilan and was originally titled "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes.”

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It has been dated to at least 1927 http://www.fun-with-words.com/shortest_poem.html, as published in the Mt Rainier Nature News Notes (1 July 1927). <br class="br">Misattributed

“The garden is a raging sea,
The hurricane is snarling;
Oh, happy you and happy me!
Isn't the lightning darling?”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.”

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"The Hippopotamus" http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/848.html

“May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
I wish to retire till the party's over.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), Children's Party